Well-bucket.



PATENTED JULY ,21, 1903.

WELL BUCKET.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25. 1902.

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H0 MODEL.

WITNESSES:

No. 734,330. PATENTED JULY 21, 1903.

- G. P. HOBBS.

WELL BUCKET.

APPLICATION FILBD SHPT. 25. 1902.

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UNITED STATES 1 Patented July .21, 1903..

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE P. HOBBS, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA,'ASSIGNOR TO NATIONALENAMELING &.STAMPING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, Y., A CORPO- RATION OF NEWJERSEY.

WELL-BUCKET.

SPECIFICATIONfOItHihg part of Letters Patent No; 734,330, dated July 21,1903. Application filedSeptember 25, 1902. Serial No. 124,"767 (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that L GEORGE P. HOBBS, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of New Orleans, parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Well-Buckets, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to buckets such as are employed chiefly in drawingwater from to wells, without, however, being restricted to buckets forthis specific purpose.

Two kinds of valved buckets are in use, the buckets of one kind beingself-drainingthat is,it is sufficient to set them down upon I5 theground or upon any suitable surface 'to cause them to discharge theircontentswhile the other kind of buckets must'be'dumped to empty thecontents.

My present invention has for its object to use of the same parts thebucket may be rendered self draining or made a dumpingbucket, the onlydifference-being in the assembling of the parts. I I

' Another feature of my i'nyention relates to the construction of thevalve employed in such buckets, and has for its object to so construct avalve that it will be strong and efiicient. ,7

The invention will now be described with reference to the accompanyingdrawings andthe features of novelty pointed out in the appended claims.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a bucket con- 1 is'a dumping-bucket, whilethat shownin' Fig.2 is a self-draining bucket. Fig. 3 is a shows a valveembodying my invention in connection with an ordinary self-drainingbucket. Figs. 5 and 6 are two views corresponding to Figs. 1 and 2,showing another .form of my invention; and Fig.7 is a crosssection takenon line 7 7 of Fig. 3.

The bucket comprises a shell or bucket? proper, A, provided with a bailA, adapted for attachment to a chain or the like, a valve,

provide a bucket so constructed that by thestructed according tomyinventionwithparts in section, and Fig. 2 is a similar View, the

bottom view of the valve I employ. Fig.4

and a valve-holder,whicl1, in accordance with the first feature ;ofmyinvention, is reversible, so that in one position of suchholder thebucket will; be a self-draining bucket, while in the other position ofthe valve-holder the bucket will be a dumping-bucket. Thus in Figs. 1and 2 thevalve-holder B consists of a metal disk having a centralaperture B and provided'with a flange extending at one side ofsaid disk,the height of said flange being slightly .greater than the length of thearms OQWh-ich are connected with the valve, as will be describedpresently. Thus when the valve-holder B is inserted into the lower endof the bucket, so that the flange 13 will be below the disk, the arms 0will not project beyond the bottom of the bucket, and the valve will notopen when the bucket is set upon the ground. The bucket will thereforethen bea d umping-bucket. When, how-- ever, the valve-holder isusedinthe inverted position, as shown in'Fig. 2, the disk containing thevalve-.seat will beat the bottom of the bucket and the arms-O willproject considerably from the bucket, so: that when the bucket is setdown upon a supporting-surface the valve .will 'open automatically. Thebucket in this case, therefore, is a self-draining bucket. Thevalve-holder B is secured in position by bending the lower end of theshell A inward, as shown at A and the upper end of the holder ispreferably in engagement with a rib or bead A which projects into thebucket. However, other ways of securing the reversible valve-holder maybe employed.

-In Figs. 5 and 6 I have illustrated a constructionin which the shellancl=the valve are the same, as in Figs. 1 and 2, but the valveholder Bis made of wood instead ofmetal and-has a cup-shaped depression, sothat'an annular flange is formed, having the-same function as the flangeB and,furthermore, two seats are formed at the ends of the aperture Band according to the position of the said valve-holder the same resultis obtained as explained with-reference to Figs. 1 and 2- that is, thebucket may be made either selfdraining or dumping.

The valve which I prefer to employ comprises a disk D, made of leatheror other ma terial suitable for producing a tight joint. On one side ofthis disk are secured the arms C, previously mentioned, which armspreferably have their free ends bent outwardly, as shown at C, so as toprevent the arms from passing through the aperture of the valveholder.On the other side of the disk B, I locate a suitable covering-suchas,for instance, a metal disk E--from which prongs E may be struck up,said prongs being passed through the leather disk D and through openingsin the connecting member C3 of the arms 0, and the ends of the prongsare clenched against said member 0 In Fig. 4 the arms G and packing orleather disk D are the same as hereinbefore described, but instead ofthe metal disk E there is employed a wood block F. The bucket, a portionof which appears in Fig. 4, is an ordinary bucket with a shell (1 and anon-reversible holder 1). By non-reversible I mean that this holder 1)cannot be reversed for obtaining different functions, as is the casewith the holders shown in Figs. 1, 2, 5, and 6.

The reversible valve-holders which form part of my invention are, aswill be seen upon reference to the drawings, provided with twovalve-seats, one at each end of the valveopening, and these twovalve-seats are located at different distances from that end surface ofthe holder which is at the opposite side, or, to explain matters moreclearly, the upper valve-seat is located at another distance from thelower surface or end of the holder than the lower valve-seat is locatedfrom the upper end or surface of the holder. When these conditions areobserved in the manufacture of the valve-holder, it becomes reversiblein the sense hereinbefore describedthat is, the position of the activevalve-seat relatively to the end or to the bottom of the bucket ischanged by reversing the holder within the bucket. The specificconstruction of the valve is very simple and strong and enables thevalve to be thoroughly guided relatively to the valve-holder.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bucket comprising a shell, a valve, and a reversible valve-holderhaving two seats, each active for only one position of the holder, thedistance of the active seat from the bottom of the bucket beingdiiferent according as the holder is used in an upright or in aninverted position, the said valve being provided with projectionsarranged to be entirely within the bucket in one position of thevalve-holder, and to extend beyond the bucket-bottom in the otherposition of the valve-holder.

2. A bucket comprising a shell, a reversible valve-holder having twoseats, each active for only one position of the holder, the distance ofthe active seat from the bottom of the bucket being diflerent accordingas the holder is used in an upright or in an in verted position, and avalve comprising a plate adapted to engage said seats, and armsextending through the holderand of a height smaller than the distancefrom the active seat to the bucket-bottom when the valveholder is usedin an upright position.

3. A bucketcomprising ashell, a valve having projections adapted toengage the ground when the bucket is set down, to render the bucketself-draining, and a valve-holderhaving two seats for the valve atdifferent distances from the bucket-bottom, the projections of the valvebeing entirely within the bucket when the valve is in its innerposition, so as to render the bucket a dumpingbucket in said position.

4. A valve for buckets comprising a packing-disk, arms located on oneside of said disk and provided with a connecting member, and acovering-plate located on the other side of the disk, and provided at adistance from its outer edge with struck-up prongs which extend throughthe said disk and through the said connecting member.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

GEORGE P. HOBBS.

Witnesses: JOHN F. A. HEB-EL, S. D. MARKS.

